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I have lived at my current abode for almost a year now, and I still get mail for the previous occupants daily. I have informed them, Australia Post, marked items 'return to sender' or with their new address, and yet I still receive mail.

If I just throw them out, my housemate says you can be prosecuted, but I'm not so sure. (and if the police ask: No, I haven't already been throwing them out, but keeping their magazines)

So, is this right? Can I throw them out? I think I have been more than accommodating.
 

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Informing Aus Post is a waste of time as they are not allowed to hold or redirect mail unless authoriseed by the addressee.

Send it 'return to sender' or better still put 'deceased' on it with an accompanying note that getting mail for this person is distressing you and you will consider legal action. That stops it dead in its tracks.
 
Well we've been renting our house for 4 1/2 years now, and we get mail a few times a week for former occupants. It all gets marked 'return to sender' and popped back in the mail. :)

At another place we rented, we got mail for one of the previous occupants, and one day this man shows up at the door, just happened to be him. So I told him we'd gotten some of his mail and he said he hadn't realised he hadn't changed his address everywhere and apologised profusely. It was kind of amusing. :p
 
Originally posted by lioness22
Well we've been renting our house for 4 1/2 years now, and we get mail a few times a week for former occupants. It all gets marked 'return to sender' and popped back in the mail. :)

At another place we rented, we got mail for one of the previous occupants, and one day this man shows up at the door, just happened to be him. So I told him we'd gotten some of his mail and he said he hadn't realised he hadn't changed his address everywhere and apologised profusely. It was kind of amusing. :p
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I've had a post office box since 1996, and I keep getting mail for someone who has given out their address to people incorrectly. My PO box is in Sunshine, and all the mail is addressed to North Sunshine, but the number of the box is not part of the sequence at North Sunshine so it all comes to me (same postcode).

Unfortunately Australia Post can't do anything about it because they try to deliver the mail to the address stated.

It isn't personal mail - it's for an industrial company, dealing in chemicals in some way - and there are lots of windowed envelopes containing invoices etc. The business is not listed in the White Pages either (at least not under the name on the mail).

You'd think after seven years of not receiving their bills, someone would cotton on...
 
Originally posted by Scarlett Pimp
I have lived at my current abode for almost a year now, and I still get mail for the previous occupants daily. I have informed them, Australia Post, marked items 'return to sender' or with their new address, and yet I still receive mail.

If I just throw them out, my housemate says you can be prosecuted, but I'm not so sure. (and if the police ask: No, I haven't already been throwing them out, but keeping their magazines)

So, is this right? Can I throw them out? I think I have been more than accommodating.
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Have you ever heard of this phrase Return to Sender.?

Use it and put on the envelope that the person doesn't live where you are living any more.
You can also write the previous occupents a letter telling them that you're getting sick and tired of sending his mail back to him.
 
Originally posted by Darky

You'd think after seven years of not receiving their bills, someone would cotton on...
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I often wonder the same thing about our former tenants, after 4 years..........
 
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Originally posted by goaldrush
Have you ever heard of this phrase Return to Sender.?

Use it and put on the envelope that the person doesn't live where you are living any more.
You can also write the previous occupents a letter telling them that you're getting sick and tired of sending his mail back to him.
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Can you even read? You defy description. Run along.
 
Was once informed by Australia Post that you can legally open it, and throw it out, providing it is addressed to your residence.

My theory has always been if they haven't lived at that address for over 3 months, then I dont owe them any favours and in the bin it goes.
 
Originally posted by Sly77
Was once informed by Australia Post that you can legally open it, and throw it out, providing it is addressed to your residence.

My theory has always been if they haven't lived at that address for over 3 months, then I dont owe them any favours and in the bin it goes.
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Agreed with that, it doesn't cost a huge amount to put in a redirection with Aus Post and they can even give yo a change of address kit to send off to businesses that you deal with.

Anyone lazy enough to not take advantage of it deserves to have their mail binned.
 
Originally posted by Docker_Brat
...it doesn't cost a huge amount to put in a redirection with Aus Post and they can even give yo a change of address kit to send off to businesses that you deal with.

Anyone lazy enough to not take advantage of it deserves to have their mail binned.
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To the tune of $9, for one month after you've declared which date you will have moved out of your old residence.

$9 over four weeks. That's all.

Agree with you, DB-- anyone who can't take advantage of that deserves to have their mail put through the shredder, let alone having it binned.

And in the case of SP's plight...

Originally posted by Scarlett Pimp
I have lived at my current abode for almost a year now, and I still get mail for the previous occupants daily. I have informed them, Australia Post, marked items 'return to sender' or with their new address, and yet I still receive mail.
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Unfortunately, that's all you can do. And it sounds like Australia Post quite simply isn't doing their job, per making a record of where those old residents are to be receiving their mail now.

We've been in our new house of residence for close to three months now (my, how time flies), and we still ocassionally get mail marked for the past tenants, but not as often as you have. All we can do is to have it forwarded accordingly-- but at least we planned ahead to have our mail re-directed, and we did that before we moved.

A little advance planning ahead saves headaches for the future.
 

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just on the offense to steal someones mail bit! When we were little hooligans we would go round the neighbourhood ripping up ppls mail and bills and stuff :D however now that i think about what a silly thing it was to do i am surprised that in this day and age so few ppl actually have locks on their letterboxes. People could have a field day with all the memberships and birthday money that comes through mine!
 
Spidey, that's a good point, we actually used to lock our letterbox, mainly because it wouldn't close properly :p but I stopped doing that after a while because the postie would ALWAYS give us next door's mail and vice versa, so it was easier for them to get their mail out and put ours in if it wasn't locked. ;)

And just on mail redirection, we usually do it for about 6 months after we move, sometimes around birthdays or christmas or whatever you get mail from people who write like once a year so it does come in handy like that, or if you forget to change your address with someone.
 
We've been at our new address for over 4 months now & still get the occasional mail from the previous owners. They gave us their new address so we just forward any mail addressed to them to their new address.
 
We still get a quartly letter from a Carpet Cleaning company addressed to the residents who used to live at our address. Only problem was, they moved away 20 years ago!
 
Originally posted by you_idiot
To the tune of $9, for one month after you've declared which date you will have moved out of your old residence.

$9 over four weeks. That's all.

Agree with you, DB-- anyone who can't take advantage of that deserves to have their mail put through the shredder, let alone having it binned.

And in the case of SP's plight...



Unfortunately, that's all you can do. And it sounds like Australia Post quite simply isn't doing their job, per making a record of where those old residents are to be receiving their mail now.
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You've contradicted yourself. Why should some people pay for redirection service and then you expect Australia Post to make a note of who has moved where and forward their mail for free.
 

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Re: Re: Forwarding mail

Originally posted by goaldrush
Have you ever heard of this phrase Return to Sender.?

Use it and put on the envelope that the person doesn't live where you are living any more.
You can also write the previous occupents a letter telling them that you're getting sick and tired of sending his mail back to him.
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Oh ... My .... God.
 
I've got mail from 6 or 7 different people in the past few months who've previously rented the place, only one of them I knew the forwarding address of. I sometimes put cheesy comments along with the return to sender message to amuse myself, my brother's got a nice one, he still gets mail for the same bloke after a couple of years so now he's taken to writing: COMMITTED, c/- [Insert nearest Pyschiatric ward] :p
 
no not you ageeeeeeeeeeen

Now come now, who cares about mail that is wrongly addressed ????
what are you soft !!!!throw it in the bin and when your flat mate asks say you posted it! or even better burn it!!!!!!
we moved here from a house where previous tenants mustve gone real quick, and for month they kept sending it. now weve moved and kept the old telephone number as telstra encourages. nowadays, they still keep ringing!! the important stuff you think they would sought out. and after a little while.... face it, it aint important anymore!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Originally posted by Docker_Brat
You've contradicted yourself. Why should some people pay for redirection service and then you expect Australia Post to make a note of who has moved where and forward their mail for free.
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Not really contradicting myself at all-- speaking actually from experience of doing the whole "moving" process a couple of months ago, and the relative experiences of us moving house and those who were the former tenants at the house we're living in now.

If you spend the $9 for four weeks' service, you shouldn't have to expect Australia Post to have to be required to correct any record of where you're at, in the case of mis-delivered mail, as long as you plan ahead.

An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure, right? ;)

We planned ahead, and all of our mail has followed us to the new place... even those from the ATO, Immigration and those bothersome "due now" notices (kidding, kind of). :D

As opposed to the former tenants in this place, for whom the odd letter still arrives, they may not have planned ahead as well as they could have. That's all I was trying to relate. :)
 
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Originally posted by Spidergirl~RiCkChiCk
HAHA

Suzi did u go to glenferrie today i think i saw u
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Nope. I was umpiring two matches at the Northern Oval Yesterday. I had North Ballarat Rebels vs Sandringham Dragons. Rebels won both matches.
 

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